I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software
In which I give you yet another reason to ignore the naysayers
Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users
Google did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement of the class-action case, which accused the firm of "unlawful and intentional interception and recording of individuals’ confidential communications without their consen…
Thermodynamic Computing Promises Energy-Efficient AI Images
What if AI could create stunning images with a fraction of the energy used today?
Italian television channel does DLSS 5 haters a favor by broadcasting footage from reveal trailer, then copyright striking Nvidia's own You…
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New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border securi…
Officials are in talks with the US about a new travel deal.
The Microsoft-OpenAI Files: Internal documents reveal the realities of AI’s defining alliance
Internal emails, texts, slide decks, and deposition testimony show how Microsoft went from being sidelined at OpenAI’s founding to wielding decisive influence over the AI lab that launched the generative AI era — and ho…
The Triple-i Initiative 2026 Premiere
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TIL that Ayatollah Khamenei built a secret organization called BAYT. This organization is more powerful than the government and employs 40…
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RAIDED BY THE POLICE | Investigating Nintendo, Sega, & Devkit Arrests - Gamers Nexus
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An AI Thought Experiment on Substack Is Sending The Stock Market Spiraling
AI is coming for everything, Wall Street seems to believe.
Microsoft's new research project of storage can hold data for 10,000 years
Served on a platter.
YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it
YouTube is coming up with another infuriating way to force users to pay for Premium subscipriton or watch ads.
New York Stock Exchange builds tokenized securities platform to bring stocks and ETFs to 24x7 on-chain trading
The New York Stock Exchange is building a tokenized securities platform that could enable 24x7 trading, instant settlement, and fractional share access for stocks and ETFs.
TIL about the word "instar" and how it refers to the developmental stages of arthropods
An instar (/ˈɪnstɑːr/ ⓘ; from Latin īnstar 'form, likeness') is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, which occurs between each moult (ecdysis) until sexual maturity is reached.[1] Arthropods must shed t…
Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner
The system can function in air with 20% humidity or less. But these 1,000 liter a day machines are not small, at around shipping container size.
Simpsons Hit & Run and Prototype studio Radical Entertainment is back as New Radical Games
The studio has a new website and appears to be looking for work…
AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower Engl…
MIT researchers find AI chatbots often show bias, giving less accurate or more dismissive answers to some users. The findings highlight growing risks, especially for marginalized communities worldwide.
TIL drinking, smoking, games, etc are all "social lubricants" for making conversations easier.
A social lubricant is any food, beverage, drug, or activity that stimulates social interactions or helps people feel more comfortable in social occasions.[1] Different cultures use different social lubricants for this p…
Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety"
The people loudly departing the biggest AI companies aren't necessarily looking for fatter paychecks or more stock options; they’re worried that AI businesses are putting profits over sanity and safety.
Starfield on PS5 Pro is the best it's ever been, but it's still Starfield | RPG Site
We revisit Starfield on PS5 Pro to see how much it has improved since launch and what sort of upgrade the PS5 Pro delivers compared to PS5, Xbox, and more.
Three YouTubers accuse Apple of illegal scraping to train its AI models
The lawsuit claims that Apple "improperly circumvented" YouTube's platform protections to scrape videos.
Even more AMD ray tracing performance improvements heading to Mesa on Linux
Developer Natalie Vock working for Valve has sent in even more impressive performance improvements for AMD GPUs on Linux with Mesa.
Black & White at 25: how Lionhead's hairbrained, stoner-powered game design became the harbinger of modern AI
Peter Molyneux, Google DeepMind's Richard Evans, and more on the making and legacy of Black & White as it turns 25.
The Tragic Beauty of Majora's Mask
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TIL:despite cracking down traditional views, Mao Zedong allegedly had many sexual relationships with young women, which he viewed through a…
The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician is a memoir by Li Zhisui, one of the physicians to Mao Zedong, former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, which was first published in 1994.…
President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint t…
Is The New York Times a games company? A familiar debate continues
“The New York Times is no longer a news company,” proclaims the caption of a chart posted on X Saturday summarizing how Times bundle subscribers have eclipsed news-only subscribers. The New York Times is no longer a new…
Programmer: Microsoft Ran My Work Through AI, Inserted Embarrassing Typos
A diagram created by Vincent Driessen 15 years ago wound up on a Microsoft Learn website with some curious errors apparently generated by AI.
TIL that British india(British Raj) have a significant role in British-Qing opium trade as Indian farmers produced opium poppy in large n…
The colonial government's trade in opium devastated Indian farmers, new research shows.
Death by a thousand slops
I have previously blogged about the relatively new trend of AI slop in vulnerability reports submitted to curl and how it hurts and exhausts us. This trend does not seem to slow down. On the contrary, it seems that we h…
Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueli…
Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.
English Wikipedia bans archive.today
In January 2026, archive.today added code into its website in order to perform a distributed denial-of-service attack against a blog.[1] This code uses the computers of visitors of the site to repeatedly send requests t…
Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine
Todd Howard also says the upcoming RPG is a return to Bethesda's 'classic' RPG formula
Kaveri Engine's Full Afterburner Triumph Advances India's Jet Propulsion Independence
India has marked a significant milestone in its pursuit of aerospace self-reliance with the successful full afterburner test of the Kaveri e...
WinRAR path traversal flaw still exploited by numerous hackers
Multiple threat actors, both state-sponsored and financially motivated, are exploiting the CVE-2025-8088 high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR for initial access and to deliver various malicious payloads.
Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer de…
If you can't afford one, build it yourself.
Phubbing Explained: Stop This Rude Phone Behavior | HuffPost Life
Etiquette experts break down this egregious behavior — and what to do about the "phubbers" in your life.
Tech Otakus Save The World – Robotics;Notes Elite – Review
Kaito and Akiho, two students of the Robot Club, want to build a giant robot, and their version of Japan loves robotics! Sadly, they are the only members left in the club, which is in danger of bei…
Anthropic’s latest AI model could let hackers carry out attacks faster than ever. It wants companies to put up defenses first | CNN Business
Anthropic will make its new AI model available to some of the worldâs biggest cybersecurity and software firms in an effort to slow the arms race ignited by AI in the hands of hackers, Anthropic said Tuesday.
TIL: Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 Years
New Federal Data Show More Than 49,000 Deaths In A Single Year, Marking The Highest Rate Recorded Since The Early 1940s.
I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.
Dolphin Emulator - Rise of the Triforce
During the rapid technological advancements of the early 1990s, the video game industry was on the cusp of a massive addition - another dimension. With console shenanigans like the Super FX chip giving players a taste o…
Epic and Google have a secret $800 million Unreal Engine and services deal
Epic disputes that it impacts their ongoing antitrust dispute.
Interesting Westworld style game with a Next Fest demo
Sister Lace is a first-person narrative survival game set in an elite academic campus where each student lives alongside a Sister, a humanoid robot designed to assist them. One night, a mysterious virus turns those mean…
What is the Shortest Possible Ride in RollerCoaster Tycoon 2?
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Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure and parts from Chi…
U.S. still depends on China, despite years of onshoring efforts.
Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs
Last month Walled Culture wrote about an important case at the Court of Justice of the European Union, (CJEU), the EU’s top court, that could determine how VPNs can be used in that region…
"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American c…
After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.
Gentoo Linux begins Codeberg migration to phase out GitHub repos
News and information from Gentoo Linux
Three years after its release, Star Trek: Resurgence is about to be delisted for good
The publisher's "license to distribute" has come to an end, so it's goodbye to the Telltale Games inspired outing.